Toilet-seat paper and holder therefor.



0. W. GIBLYN & G. E. GARDNER. TOILET SEAT PAPER AND HOLDER THEREFOR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15, 1909.

Patented July 26, 1910.

CHARLES W. GIIBLYN, OFGLENDALE, AND GILBERT E. GARDNER, F LOS ANGELES,

' CALIFORNIA.

TOILET-SEAT PAPER AND HOLDER THEREFOR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 191E.

Application filed July 15, 1909. Serial-No. 507,869.

This invention relates to means for cover:

ing a toilet seat, so as to prevent contact of the person with the seatthereby eliminating the liability of infectlon.

The protective device consists of a paper or other fabric sheet,provided with an opening. corresponding to the opening of the seat, andthe invention relates, in part to the sheet itself, and in part to meansfor hold-j ing the sheets in convenient position for use. p In theaccompanying drawings,illustrating the invention: Figure '1 is aperspective of the toilet seat with the protective meansapplied thereto.Fig. 2' is a plan of the paper. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of theprotective means and the holder, and the seat. Fig. 4 is a perspectiveof the support for the paper.

The ard comprises a sheet 1, of paper or other abric, havin an opening 2conform-' ing more or less to t e opening 3 of the toilet seat 4. Aroundtheedge of the opening the sheet is slit as at 5 to permit it to be bentdown around the opening, and at the front end of the opening the sheethas a tongue or projection 6 extendin into the opening 2 to act as aprotector. or the private organs of the person using the seat. Sheet 1may be medicated, if desired.

The sheets 1 are preferably assembled in a pack, as shown in Figs. 1 and3, the pack hem supported on pins or prongs 7, extending rom a backmember or support 8, these prongs being formed, for example, by slottinga metal plate and bending forward the cut portions, as shown in Fig. 4.The pack of sheets may be contained in a box 'or casing 9 which, 1sfperforated at the back to perm1t passage 0 the prongs 7 and has a slotor notch 10 at the top throu h which exi normally han g from the prongs7 which are clenched t ereon by bendmg as shown at 13. To guide thepaper sheets 1 while they are being turned down on the seat, and toretain them in proper position after they are so turned 'down guide armsor wires 14 are provided extending from the back of case 9, forwardlyand downwardly in a curve, the sheet slipping or sliding along the wiresas it is being turned down on to the seat until the downward movement ofthe sheet is arrested by means of flanges or stops15 on the wires 14.The stops 15 are so arranged that the sheet is held 1n the properposition on the seat, the stops being in the same plane as the top ofthe seat. The pron 7 being of flat metal, presented vertica y edgewise,serve also as means for severing the paper as it is pulled down.

What we claim is a 1. A toilet seat pa er holder comprising an openfront case fixedly supported in a vertical position, paper sheetstherein forming a pack, said sheets having perforations therein, arms inthe lower art of said case extending through the per orations insaidsheets and outwardly and downwardly therefrom for 'ding said sheetsinto a horizontal position in front of said pack, and means on said armsfor arresting said sheets in a horizontal position on the toilet seat. I

2. A toilet seat paiplpr holder comprising an open front case edlysupported in a vertical position, paper sheets therein forming a pack,ins extending from the back of the case an adapted to support the papersheets in a vertical position in said case, arms in the lower part ofsaid case extending throu h said ack and outwardly and downward y thereom to ide'the sheets into a horizontal position in front of said pack,and stops on said arms for arresting vertical position said casehavingan open- I ing in the to thereof, paper sheets in said casedetachab ysecured at their upper ends to said case and formin a pack, each of saidsheets having a pro ection thereon extending throughsaid opening in thetop of the case and forming a handle means, aims set ou'fhands atLosAngeles Celifornia this in the lower part of said case extending. v8thday of J ulz. 1909.

through said pack and outwardly and down- ()HARLES W. GIBLYN.

wardly' therefrom for guiding said ,sheets i GILBERT E. GARDNER; 5 into.a horizontal position in front of said In presence of pack. ARTHUR P.KNIGHT,

- In testimony whereof, we havehereunto P. H. SHELTQN.

